Linden police arrest 2 after gunshots

1:11 PM,
May 8, 2013

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| Staff Report

A 19-year-old Rahway man and 15-year-old Rahway boy face weapons charges after police arrested them following a report of gunshots near a Lincoln Street park.

At about 10:20 p.m. Monday, police were on patrol when they heard two gunshots in the area of Hattie Johnson Park, on the 1100 block of Lincoln Street.

Police found an 18-year-old Linden man, who told them that someone in a car shot at him. He gave the officers a description of a gray Nissan with two men inside. Minutes later, Officer Michael Burnette observed a similar vehicle traveling east on East Elizabeth Avenue at a high rate of speed. ...